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When it comes to reading rooms, New Yorkers are spoiled for choice. There\u2019s the Morgan Library\u2019s Sherman Fairchild Reading Room (for perusing, say, a fifteenth-century Book of Hours). Or the N.Y.P.L.\u2019s Rose Main Reading Room (fluffy clouds on a fifty-foot ceiling). And recently, if you wanted to be near three thousand four hundred and thirty-seven bound volumes of Department of Justice files pertaining to the alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, you could visit the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, in Tribeca.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll that we ask is that you do not take any of the books off the shelves and look through them,\u201d a receptionist informed a group the other day. The Memorial Reading Room, a temporary installation by the nonprofit Institute for Primary Facts, did not allow visitors to handle the books because D.O.J. redaction errors mean that some victims\u2019 names are visible. (Verified victims could make an appointment and view the files in private.)<\/p>\n

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Why visit a gallery full of documents you aren\u2019t allowed to read? Sue Bailey, a retired HBO executive with strawberry-blond hair and chunky glasses, was hoping that the physical presence of the files would help her comprehend their import. \u201cYou know how they do those illustrations? \u2018A stack of a trillion dollars would reach from Earth to the moon.\u2019 I need to see the scale,\u201d Bailey said. She tries to modulate her Epstein fixation in conversations with friends: \u201cI don\u2019t want to bug people too much.\u201d But the case seems to follow her. She described how a ma\u00eetre d\u2019 had recently told her, referring to Epstein\u2019s apparent suicide, \u201cOh, did you hear that the guard for\u00a0his cell got paid five thousand bucks like two or three days before it happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

Visitors could consult a time line on a wall in the back that enumerated decades of alternately immoral and illegal behavior from Trump and Epstein: \u201c1994: The first known victim,\u201d \u201c1997: Miss Teen USA dressing room,\u201d \u201c2003: Trump\u2019s 50th birthday message to Epstein.\u201d A criminal-justice student named Ariella Quashie, the child of immigrants from Trinidad, said she worried that her parents could be deported. The justice system, she said, is \u201ca huge pool of old white men just making policies.\u201d Of Epstein, she went on, \u201cReading that he was already arrested for sex trafficking, and that they let him go for sixteen hours of the day\u2014I always feel like the government only cares when it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Downstairs, there were urgings to make the government care more right now: signs with the D.O.J.\u2019s phone number and a brief script for callers demanding the release of more files. Visitors had written messages on index cards tacked to corkboards, with sentiments ranging from the quippy (\u201cGOP\u2014Gang of Pedophiles\u201d) to the sincere (\u201cIt breaks my heart\u201d). A buff, bearded man in a backward ball cap that read \u201ctrust but verify<\/em>\u201d lingered by the entrance. \u201cThe best thing about living in the U.S. is the predictability of life,\u201d he said\u2014withdrawing the money you deposited in the bank, picking up a rental car you reserved. The government\u2019s failure to punish people like Epstein, he said, put that life style in jeopardy; he expected that we\u2019d see increased black-market activity and even mobs in the streets. A C.I.O. who had once worked on campaigns for George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, the man described himself as currently being \u201canti-state.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t believe that a single entity basing authority on monopoly of violence is viable without a lot of harm coming with it,\u201d he said. Could he envision a version of America that would appeal to him? \u201cIt is difficult to imagine a good state that stays a good state.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Next to a memorial to victims, Kristy Calabro, a Staten Islander wearing a jean skirt and platform Chuck Taylors, explained why she had come: \u201cI\u2019m trying to have a nice day with my mom.\u201d Her mother\u2014an MS NOW addict named Angela\u2014was revved up. \u201cSince the beginning of history, men have put their thumb on women. Their pea brains can\u2019t understand that if it wasn\u2019t for a woman, they would not exist,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s the only way they can feel superior, because they certainly aren\u2019t more intelligent, they are not more compassionate\u2014except if you have a son. Your son is the exception.\u201d She had more to say, but there wasn\u2019t time; their next stop was a gluten-free pizza place in the West Village.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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